Kathiravan Udayakumar - Oracle SOA Infrastructure Implementation Certification Handbook

Kathiravan Udayakumar has more than 8 years of IT experience with expertise in Oracle Fusion Middleware products and PeopleSoft applications. Interestingly, all his experiences relate to the world's first implementation (Greenfield) of IT system implementation and system integration.

Kathiravan holds a Bachelor's degree as a Gold Medalist in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Madurai Kamaraj University; a Master of Science degree in System Software Engineering from Birla Institute of Science and Technology, Pilani; and a Master of Business Administration degree in Sales and Marketing from Symbiosis Institute, Pune.

He has extensive experience in architecting and designing solutions using various Oracle Fusion and PeopleSoft products. He works for a highly-reputed IT consulting organization and is considered to be a key member of the Fusion CoE team. He has trained more than 100 associates in Fusion Middleware 11g to gain the skills for developing and designing solutions using Oracle SOA Suite 11g.

Kathiravan has extensive experience in the IT certification area for many years now, right from his college days. He holds various IT certifications from Cisco, IBM, Oracle, and BrainBench.

I would like to thank my family and friends who have always been supportive and helped me to move forward in all walks of my life. I would especially like to thank my colleague Jayaprakash Rajendran, who volunteered to review this book without any hesitation, and provided valuable comments on time despite his busy schedule. I would also like to thank all the members of Packt editorial team who have constantly helped me to improve this book with their valuable comments and service.

Hans Forbrich , who is an Oracle ACE Director, has been working with Oracle technologies for a number of years, starting with Oracle Database v4 and Oracle Middleware using Oracle Web Server 3.0.

He is an Oracle University partner instructor; owner and principal partner in Forbrich Consulting Group, which is an OPN member. He is a consultant on high availability platforms using Oracle Linux and Oracle VM under Oracle Database and Oracle Fusion Middleware technologies, and is frequently invited to Oracle conferences to discuss a variety of Oracle-related topics.

Arun Pareek is an SOA Practitioner working on SOA-based implementation projects in the capacity of a Consultant and Architect for over 5 years now. He is also an IASA certified Software Architect and currently co-authoring a book on Oracle SOA Suite Administration for Packt Publishing.

He has been actively working on an SOA Suite of products for both BEA and Oracle including technologies like Service Bus, AIA, BPEL, BAM, BPA, and BPMN. He has a knack for designing systems that are scalable, performant, and fault-tolerant and is an enthusiast of Automated Continuous Integration techniques. He is also an active blogger on these technologies and runs a popular blog at http://beatechnologies.wordpress.com.

I would like to appreciate the encouragement that I received from my parents for helping me achieve many things in life. A special note of thanks to my wonderful wife, Karuna, for her constant support, cooperation, and patience, without which it would have been impossible for me to manage my work and life together.

Jayaprakash Rajendran has around 7 years of IT experience with expertise in PL/SQL programming, Oracle SOA 10g/11g Suite, PeopleSoft Application development, and Enterprise Application Integration with experience in Oracle SOA 11g, Oracle SOA Suite 10.1.3.x, and Oracle AIA.

He has experience in working with technology adapters such as File Adapter, FTP Adapter, Database Adapter, JMS Adapter, and Oracle AQ Adapter.

I would like to thank Kathiravan for giving me the opportunity to review this book and provide my input.

Kalyan Sura holds a Master's degree in Computers and has 15 years of IT experience. He provided technical and functional leadership on multiple large-scale full lifecycle ERP, CRM, and SOA implementations including formulating system scope and objectives.

Kalyan helped re-architect several mid-to-large scale B2B systems by providing detailed architectural specifications and a technical approach. He published and presented whitepapers on Oracle E-Business Suite and integration technologies at both regional and international Oracle conferences.

He recently completed a leadership course at Harvard BSP. He is well-known for his strategic thinking, technical expertise, implementation abilities, and innovation while handling tough assignments and providing quality results.

He successfully demonstrated applying existing and emerging technologies to deliver multiple concurrent large-scale projects. He is a persuasive negotiator successfully presenting complex tactical/program plans to corporate leaders and decision makers to achieve their buy-in.

I would like to thank Kathiravan and Packt Publishing for giving me an opportunity to be one of the reviewers of this book.